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A Fascinating LEGO Death Star Video

Someone put together the official LEGO Death Star construction kit and made a simply fantastic time-lapse video of it – what’s kind of cool is it’s not like a blocky-transition video, everything is very smooth.  Plus, as each room gets completed, a demonstration of what the room does as well as corresponding audio cues from […]

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Space, Man…Like, Woah

Watching these videos I’m linking here create that kind of nausea in the pit of your stomach you feel when you realize that there’s just so Much SPACE out there and all our problems and cares don’t amount to a hill of beans in the grand epic scheme of things.  These videos are just stunning […]

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Saturday State Amidst the Horseshit

Hello everybody!  With Larry & I both having gotten a run in this afternoon, it feels like it is actually Sunday, as that’s when we normally do that.  But we’ve got some plans tomorrow so today was it!  I ended up trying a variant on the route I’ve been going, using the Griffith Park horse […]

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FitBit For Me

I mentioned in my Christmas Fun post that Larry got me a FitBit – to be more specific, he got me a FitBit Charge HR…. It’s an nice and clean device that has a heart rate monitor built in and you can wear it all day.  I’m actually not wearing my “regular” watch anymore as […]

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New York, for a second

Work is getting a bit busier for me (hallelujah!) and early next week, I’ll be jetting off to the City in order to be there for a Monday meeting, then flying back Monday night in hopes to avoid any Thanksgiving flying craziness.  We’ll see how lucky I am in that regard.  I am optimistic and […]